Category: Administration

Just a brief status check on where we are with the Golf
Course Maintenance facility’s first phase. The site work is still in process.
However, the contractor told me in a meeting Tuesday that everything will wrap
up by the end of this month.

Here is a list of the work completed to date:

Erected a steel building to house fuel tanks and equipment washing activities

Built a concrete block materials bin

Installed a 15” reinforced concrete pipe and catch basins along the old culvert so it can be used for parking

Installed a 53 ton topdressing sand silo

Shaped, graded, and sodded five water detention ponds per the Village of Estero

Removed and reinstalled all chain link fencing

Work remaining:

Block retention wall being built behind the fuel and wash station

Base rock to be brought in today so that the employee cars can be parked inside the facility

Gates reinstalled later this week and green fabric screen to cover it all the way around the site

Electricians to begin installing lighting in the fuel and wash station today

Paving the new employee parking area in two weeks

Stops, curbing, lighting, landscaping to finish this off this phase.

I want to sincerely thank the residents of Winding Stream
who have put up with the cars parked on the street, noise, construction debris,
and equipment traffic since December. We will do our best to screen the
facility so it is less obtrusive!

Our lobby furniture is on the way. The delivery is expected to arrive by Friday and installed early next week. Additional artwork and signs should be delivered and installed mid-November. At that time, we will put up any artwork that we will be re-using.

I want to thank you for your patience while we finalize the Clubhouse interior redecoration. By now, we all just want it to be done already. Well, we are almost there!

There seems to be a lot of misinformation regarding the balance of the project, so I thought a short note might clear things up.

All those old chairs and tables from the Grill that are sitting in the Lakeview Room will be gone Wednesday. Habitat for Humanity will be picking them up tomorrow. That was the soonest we could get them here. We apologize for the inconveniences experienced by bridge players and associations trying to hold meetings.

The artwork and window treatments will be hung Wed and Thurs of this week. We are still waiting on the new signage.

Finally, the Lobby furniture will all be changed out soon. We are not keeping any of it. However, we have it there until the new stuff arrives. Unfortunately, the new furniture is coming directly from the factory in Wilmington, NC. The flooding from Florence backed up their production and shipping, but we still anticipate a mid-October delivery.

We received our new chairs and tables this morning and we are left with 120 chairs and 22 tables to store. After exhausting all avenues for commercial re-use, we have decided to offer them to our members and staff beginning this morning. The distribution is first come, first serve. If you are interested, please email Iva Sokolik at communications@springrun.com. There will be a limit of 8 chairs and two tables per unit until they are gone. Any chairs or tables remaining after Friday at 5 PM will be donated to charity.

No other decorations or furnishings will be offered at this time. Artwork will be hung next week, and we expect a number of items will be reused. Some items will go to the Spring Run Charitable Foundation for auction if they are interested, and some can go to the members and staff. Details on these items have yet to be determined.

It has come to my attention that the Condo associations of Sunset Stream, Streamside, and Winding Stream are having problems with people dumping garbage into their recycle bins. The recycle bins are the being tagged by Waste Pro and not being picked up. Recycle bins and garbage dumpsters are for the exclusive use of that neighborhood’s residents, and not to be used by other communities. Please make sure your guests and/or tenants know that they are not allowed to use the other association’s garbage disposal areas. The clubhouse has a dumpster that you may use if you or your tenants needs to dispose of their garbage prior to leaving.

Our Interior Redecoration Project continues to get positive compliments on the colors and style, and we still have a ways to go. We are anticipating being about 95% done by the end of October. The only thing remaining will be the furniture, which is coming directly from the factory in North Carolina. Because of the flooding, the delivery date has been pushed back 2 weeks.

We will be removing the carpet in the hallway and Greens Room on Wednesday, Sept 19, and replacing it on Thursday, Sept 20. I was hoping to get it all done on Wed when we were closed, but the carpet is extremely time-consuming to remove, and he couldn’t get a crew on Tues to start earlier. Ahh…such is life. On Thursday, Sept 27th, tables and chairs, console tables, and artwork will be delivered, and that process should be completed by Friday, Sept 28th. That leaves only the Lobby furniture to be delivered 2 weeks later.

We want to thank everyone for being so understanding of the mess in the Clubhouse during this process. We are very excited to be able to be able to complete this interior transformation for our Members soon!

This is to follow-up on the last blog from two weeks ago to update you on the status of the renovation and to explain a little as to why it couldn’t be done all at one time. I want to thank everyone for being so understanding of the mess during this process. It will get better soon!

Currently, the Lakeview Room, Club Room, Grill Room, and Hallways are painted. Over the next week, they will go back over it and do the detail touchup work to finish those areas up. They are working on the Ladies’ Restrooms and Greens Room now, and will finish those up so we can have more usable member space before tearing up new areas. Speaking of, the Lobby will be the next focus now that the floor is down. And about that…the tile is not finished in the corners on each side where it butts up against the Amtico flooring because we are waiting for a nice bronze strip to be delivered that will separate the two floors, rather than use the standard aluminum strip. Once it is installed they will finish cutting and installing those remaining pieces.

The Lobby fireplace will get a new modern look, losing the extraneous wood trim and getting a new paint job. Lighting fixtures will be here and installed next week in the Lobby, Grill, and Club Rooms, and then the artwork will start to go back up. Windows will get some treatments, but it will be minimal. We really like how open and bright the rooms feel now without the coverings.

After the Lobby, and once the restrooms are both ready, they will address the single restrooms, the foyer outside the Pro Shop, and the Conference Room. By then, the carpeting should be delivered, hopefully by Sept 15, and all the chairs, tables, artwork, and furnishings will start arriving immediately after that. Then we will be done, except for the new Lobby furniture, which may take til the middle or end of Oct now.

I was asked today why we didn’t try to complete this whole project when we were closed, as ideally, you would want to be totally ready to go once we reopened. Well, that was the plan. However, we all know about plans. Let’s step back to April…

The Board had just approved the redecoration plan, and we were preparing to lock in contractors for August shutdown. However, due to a movement to revisit the project and alter the design, we found ourselves in mid-June before the entire House Committee could get together to discuss it and agree on a new design palette. Long story short, the entire project had to be requoted. By then, we were well past the deadlines on lead time for carpeting and furnishings, and we had to readjust our plan with a new emphasis on finishing by Oct 1. Also, the painting was always going to take several weeks, so there was never really a viable way around some dust and disruption. And that brings me to the main point, which is that if we had decided to stay closed during this project until it was finished, the golf course and clubhouse would have been unavailable to the membership for at least a month (longer based on the alterations to the design), and that was not feasible. We determined that a little mess would be acceptable in order for members to have access to their club, and so therefore, you all get to see the changes as they are being made in slow-mo!